John Sez: Other than the fact that he, at times, gets extremely marble mouthed, I like Lou Dobbs. I can’t say that I agree with all of his commentary (although his reporting on illegal immigration was spot on, in my opinion) his was one of the few (the only?) show left on the 24 hour news channels that asked the hard questions, and had no fear of confronting anyone regardless of their status, power or money. He also has some incredible good reporters (notably Casey Wyann, whom I hope has a long and illustrious career ahead of him after the Dobbs show) on his staff, who were apparently the last remnant of a free press on the big news corps.

Like him or not, he was all there was left of the heard edged, old school type of presenters and CNN if the poorer for his leaving.

Interestingly enough, Media Matters for America sent me form e-mail claiming that Dobbs’ leaving was their doing. Um, considering that Dobbs wife was almost killed in a drive by on his home a couple of weeks ago (perhaps by someone inflamed by Media Matter’s rhetoric? Hmmmm…), I think he may have had some reasons other than a hack political activism group’s efforts to smear him to draw back from the television limelight. (see video below of Lou Dobbs announcement)
In other news related new, Bill O’Reiley is the biggest douchebag onTV - followed by, perhaps, his recent guest Col. Peters(for a real meeting of the mindless, see video below)
 
 
John Sez: It wasn’t that long ago that I posted about Dr. Oz making the rounds on the TV news telling people how they should all go get their swine flu shot. The first alarm bell that rang in my head concerning Oz’s campaign to get people vaccinated was that he admitted during a news interview (video at bottom of story, or go here for the original post) that he would not be vaccinating his own children even though he was pushing for others to get the shot or to have thier children innoculated.

Now it has come out that this Oz character owns 150,000 option shares in SIGA Technologies, a vaccine technology company who’s stock is sure to rise with every vaccine given. To make matters even worse, he’s not just a shareholder of  SIGA, but he is a member of their Board of Directors, and has been since 2001.

To make a long story short: OZ has been seemingly using his position as a TV doctor with millions of viewers to convince people to get a vaccination to make money for him and his companies shareholders and not for the betterment of the health of those who listen to him.

This is absolutely disgusting. This man should have his license to practice medicine revoked immediately due to ethics violations. He is nothing more than an opportunist, a modern-day snake oil salesman whose greed has overshadowed his Hippocratic oath; he has put potentially hundreds of thousands of people’s lives at risk pushing a vaccine which is completely untested for safety FOR THE MONEY.

 Story from NaturalNews:

Conflicts of interest? Dr. Mehmet Oz owns 150,000 option shares in vaccine technology company

by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, NaturalNews Editor

(NaturalNews) Dr. Mehmet Oz is a huge promoter of vaccines. He's been on television reinforcing fear about H1N1 swine flu and telling everyone to get vaccinated. But what he didn't tell his viewing audience is that he holds 150,000 option shares in a vaccine company that could earn him millions of dollars in profits as the stock price rises. It is in Dr. Oz's own financial interest, in other words, to hype up vaccines and get more people taking them so that his own financial investments rise in value.

Evidence describing these facts was delivered to NaturalNews by a private investigator named Joseph Culligan (http://webofdeception.com/oprah.html#oz). That evidence includes an SEC document detailing how Dr. Oz. bought options on stocks for SIGA Technologies in 2005, 2007, 2008 and 2009. SIGA Technologies (stock symbol SIGA) is a vaccine technology company with many advanced developments whose success depends on the widespread adoption of vaccines. According to SEC documents, Dr. Mehmet Oz. currently holds 150,000 option shares on SIGA Technologies, purchased for as little as $1.35 back in 2005.

At the time of this writing, SIGA Technologies is trading at $7.10, making those options bought in 2005 worth $5.75 in profits today. If all the 150,000 options purchased by Dr. Oz. were exercised today, they would be worth roughly $180,000 in profits (they were bought at different prices, not all at $1.35). This is all revealed in what the SEC website calls an "insider transaction" document

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John Sez: It’s bad enough that our mainstream media are (very obviously, in my opinion) bought and sold by the powers that be. But now the executive branch is is using movie-mafia tactics to put the muscle on independent journalism…then telling them that they can’t tell anyone that it was done.

This is yet another bad sign that the government is actively working to stamp out dissent and to stop the migration of people from the ‘approved’ news mouthpieces to the largely uncontrolled net-based news sources.

As an aside, kudos to CBS. Although they are part of the big media machine, someone at the company is allowing for some hard hitting news reports to get out on the air lately. Pats on the back to the responsible party or parties.

Story from CBS:

Justice Dept. Asked For News Site's Visitor Lists
Posted by Declan McCullagh

In a case that raises questions about online journalism and privacy rights, the U.S. Department of Justice sent a formal request to an independent news site ordering it to provide details of all reader visits on a certain day.

The grand jury subpoena also required the Philadelphia-based Indymedia.us Web site "not to disclose the existence of this request" unless authorized by the Justice Department, a gag order that presents an unusual quandary for any news organization.

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John Sez: Back in mid October, there was a conference held at the Council of Foreign Relations where the Swine Flu vaccine was discussed (video of the pertinent part at bottom of post). One of the speakers makes the point (which the attendees seem to think is funny) that the way to get people to take the vaccine is to CREATE a scarcity scare so people would rush to line up thinking they might not get the shot.

A few seconds later there is a mention that there already is a shortage of the Vaccine, but the speaker corrects that statement, saying that initially 2 shots were supposed to be given for each person but because they are only giving one dose per person there is really double the amount of vaccine and thus no real shortage.

Now, folks, think about this for a second: haven’t we been hearing for the last month how we were short on vaccines so we should rush out and line up to get it? Is anyone out there getting pissed at being played by these contemptible bastards in suits?
 
 
John Sez: I was going to wax poetic about his story, but the words of Mike Rivero of WhatReallyHappened.com will serve far better. Says Mike:

Well, I hate to say I told you so, but ... no I don't. I actually rather like it! :)

This was all a scam. The US Government creates one crisis after the other to trick you out of money and obedience.

Human Caused Global Warming was to pave the way for a global environmental authority; the next step towards a global government, and along the way, the cap and credit tax system would impoverish the people and make the carbon credit brokerage system (designed by Enron's Ken Lay) filthy rich, again at your expense.

And now that we are three decades into a cooling trend, I want to rub a few noses in this snowball. Look back at everyone who was shouting "Human Caused Global Warming" at you. Al Gore, National Geographic, Discovery Channel, ABCNNBBCBS, History Channel, a whole bunch of scientists willing to sell their souls for an easy endowment, etc. etc. etc. etc. etc.

They all lied to you.

They lied.

They lied. They lied. They lied. They lied. They lied. They lied. They lied. They lied. They lied. They lied. They lied. They lied. They lied. They lied. They lied. They lied. They lied. They lied. They lied. They lied. They lied. They lied. They lied. They lied. They lied. They lied. They lied. They lied.

Many of them are STILL lying to you, trying to raise on a busted flush, because hundreds of millions of dollars was invested in Al Gore's "Global Warming Futures" and the investors are not ready to give up on selling the scam just yet, not after that much cash has been plowed into the project.

Our leadership are all lawyers and bookkeepers. They do not actually know how to make anything useful, so inevitably their exploitation of the people devolves into one scam after the other; rule by snake oil. Global Warming fear mongering. When-Pigs-Fly flu fear mongering. Osama bin Laden fear mongering. And all the government agencies and corporate media sign on because they smell the gravy train pulling into the station. And with precious few exceptions, they all stood there and sang the hymns to Saint Al of the Gore, and presented you with a bill to save you from ... whatever it was they has tricked you into believing was a direct danger to you.

It's like the old joke of the man standing in the middle of main street USA with his arms outstretched and wearing a strange contraption on his head. Someone asks him, "What are you doing?" and the man replies "I am keeping the dragons away." "But there are no dragons" says the first man. See" says our con artist, "It works! That will be five dollars, please!"

And who was warning you all along that this was a scam?

The blogs.

Once again, the blog-o-sphere had it correct and the corporate media and government were full of USDA choice bovine excrement.

The media doesn't like that. Their job was to sell you the "danger" so that the government could sell you the solution, and it didn't work out.

Which is probably why Salon is whining that people who refuse to believe as they are told and try to find out the truth for themselves simply MUST be mentally ill!

Sore losers.

Story from the TELEGRAPH:

The BBC's amazing U-turn on climate change

BY Damian Thompson

 think the BBC wanted to slip this one out quietly, but a Matt Drudge link put paid to that. The climate change correspondent of BBC News has admitted that global warming stopped in 1998 – and he reports that leading scientists believe that the earth’s cooling-off may last for decades. “Whatever happened to global warming?” is the title of an article by Paul Hudson that represents a clear departure from the BBC’s fanatical espousal of climate change orthodoxy. The climate change campaigners will go nuts, particularly in the run-up to Copenhagen. So, I suspect, will devout believers inside the BBC. Hudson’s story was not placed very prominently by his colleagues – but a link right at the top of Drudge will have delivered at least a million page views, possibly many more.

Hudson’s piece is a U-turn – not because he has joined the ranks of sceptics who reject the theory of man-made global warming, but because at last he has written a story about the well-established fact that the earth’s temperature has not risen since 1998, and reports seriously the theories of climatologists (themselves not sceptics) who believe that we are in for 30 years of cooling caused by the falling temperatures of the oceans.

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John Sez: Apparently that poor excuse for afterbirth, Glen Beck, was praising the new CD by the band Muse(a band I’ve been diggin’ for years, since I first heard the track 'Muscle Museum' on a CMJ compelation CD) on his show. It seems that someone associated with the band heard his faux fawning, and it wasn’t long before Beck received an e-mail from a representative of the band telling him to cease his praise.

Beck (and I spell that with a capitol MORON) has been trying so very, very hard to co-opt as many grass roots movements as he possibly can over the last couple of years. He has tried to stamp his ‘brand’ on tea parties, ‘end the fed’, the Ron Paul Revolution, and just about every other topic covered by radio host Alex Jones. And speaking of Jones, he’s a fan of Muse (and they are fans of his, apparently) and has even had them on his show a couple of times.

Not to be insulting, but anyone who follows this mewling simpleton Beck need s to take a step back and re-evaluate their gullibility quotient. He’s nothing more than a modern day snake-oil salesmen. Like Limbaugh…and Hannity….and O’rieley…and Cooper….and Blitzer…and Zakaria….and Olbermann ( I had really high hopes for him)…and Scarborough…and Sanchez…and Tony Harris of CNN – in my opinion, the award winner for the most simple-minded TV news presenter.

Story from the London telegraph:

Muse tell Glenn Beck to retract endorsement

Glenn Beck, the Fox News commentator, was forced to withdraw an endorsement for the British rock band Muse after they complained that he misrepresented their political beliefs

Beck, an outspoken conservative known for his caustic attacks on Barack Obama, praised a song on the band's new album The Resistance for warning against the dangers of "one world government".

Describing their music as "absolutely fantastic", Beck implied that the band members shared his concern about the centralisation of power by liberal politicians.

He repeatedly compared the lyrics of United States of Eurasia to George Orwell's anti-totalitarian novel 1984, in which the world is divided into three superstates including Eurasia.

"These guys are brilliant, they know the time that we live in. They are libertarians from England," he said on his nationally syndicated talk radio show, The Glenn Beck Program.

"All of the lyrics are... dead on, on what's coming our way."

But Beck withdrew his recommendation after being emailed during the show by a representative of the band.

"They would like me to retract my endorsement," Beck told listeners. "My apologies to Muse for saying that I like them. I didn't mean to destroy all their credibility and all their coolness.

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And here’s one of my favorites from Muse: